7. Documentary Brief
‘An extract from a new documentary TV program, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:
A radio trailer for the documentary.
A double page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary.
A newspaper advertisement for the documentary.’
For my AS, I elected to undertake the fiction film brief and feel that the experience of creating the opening for ‘Wuthering Heights and Werewolves’ inspired a love of every element of the movie image production process. In order to further my skills and understanding of this genre, I have elected to create an extract for a new TV documentary program for my main A2 task. The reason I have chosen to go down the non-fiction route this year is because I have already gained a basic understanding of the processes surrounding the construction of fiction films and wish to explored a new genre in order to gain new skills whilst expanding those I developed at AS. I feel that researching the documentary genre will allow me to explore journalistic techniques alongside practical filmmaking and editing skills.
For my anxilary tasks, I intend to create a double page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary and a newspaper advertisement for the documentary. I selected these tasks as opposed to the radio trailer due to technological constraints – I have no access to a radio recording studio so would be unable to produce a high quality product suitable for A2. Technological restraints aside, I am drawn to the other two options because I did not have much opportunity during AS to develop my Photoshop skills because I went with the film brief.
I think there is a good deal that I could learn from doing this sort of documentary, I would like to try using ‘Adobe After Effects’ and improve my editing techniques on ‘Final Cut Pro’ as the main editing that I did was on the preliminary task of my As media project in which I chose to do film.
There are so many different types of documentaries around I am looking forward to doing some research because I have not decided on the specific sort of thing I want to document although I would really like to do something that could actually be used in real life
As I live in Cornwall it would be quite practical to do a documentary based on natural things or costal life, but I don’t think that is the sort of thing that I would be interesting. If I do a documentary about psychosis, I think I could combine factual elements as well as creativity to a point in the way that I could briefly show the world from a sufferer’s perspective.
As I live in Cornwall it would be quite practical to do a documentary based on natural things or costal life, but I don’t think that is the sort of thing that I would be interesting. If I do a documentary about psychosis, I think I could combine factual elements as well as creativity to a point in the way that I could briefly show the world from a sufferer’s perspective.
